Document anonymization software for chartered accountantsAI without your clients' names leaving the firm.
Summary notes, articles of association, minutes, contracts: names and contact details become labels before ChatGPT or Claude. Amounts: you choose whether to mask or keep them.
The “Get notified at launch” button opens your e-mail app. Otherwise, write to contact@anonymfiles.com.
From €290 excl. VAT per year for one seat; an 8-person firm: €1,920 excl. VAT per year. See pricing →
Coming soon for Apple silicon Macs (app signed and notarized by Apple) and Windows 10/11. No account, no telemetry, no online license check. On a Mac, turn off Wi-Fi right after installing: nothing changes.
Annual summary note
Boulangerie Moreau SARLORGANISATION 1, managed by Mr Luc MoreauPERSONNE 1, reports a profit of 48,200 eurosCONFIDENTIEL 1.
SIRET: 812 345 678 00012IDENTIFIANT 1.
Masked in this document
Fictional example.
What your profession requires
The firm's secrecy doesn't stop at ChatGPT's door.
Pasting a summary note or a contract into an online AI means handing your client's identity and figures to a third party. AnonymFiles replaces the identity; the figures are your call.
Professional secrecy
French chartered accountants (experts-comptables) are bound by it, under the conditions and penalties of art. 226-13 of the Criminal Code (art. 21 of the ordinance of 19 September 1945).
The Order's AI booklet (August 2025)
The booklet “IA et IA générative adaptées à la profession du chiffre” puts it simply: “Pseudonymize or anonymize the data you give to the AI” (our translation).
GDPR and payroll data
Salaries, social security numbers, employees' contact details: process only the data that is necessary (data minimization principle, GDPR art. 5.1.c).
Sources: Ordinance no. 45-2138, art. 21 · Ordre des experts-comptables, IA et IA générative adaptées à la profession du chiffre, Aug. 2025 (PDF) · French Criminal Code (Code pénal), art. 226-13 · GDPR, art. 5.
Use cases
What you can give the AI, and what to mask first.
Write a summary note
Comment on a result, a margin or a year-on-year change.
Mask first: the company, its directors and partners; keep the amounts the AI needs, mask those that would identify the client.
Prepare a reply to a tax reassessment
Go through the reassessment point by point and build the reply.
Mask first: the taxpayer, its directors, its address and its SIREN number (check during review); back taxes and penalties if the AI does not need them.
Review articles of association or minutes
Check the consistency of the clauses, prepare an amendment.
Mask first: the partners, the registered office, the directors' home addresses.
Analyze a payroll or customer export
Spot anomalies in a table.
Mask first: employees' names, social security numbers and IBANs (data minimization, GDPR art. 5.1.c).
How does it work at the firm?
From the client file to a copy ready for AI.
Drop in the file
Notes, articles of association, minutes, contracts, in Word, PDF, scan or e-mail, subfolders included. The same client keeps the same label everywhere.
Review
Original and copy side by side. One click masks a missed name, an amount or a passage. On export, metadata, annotations, forms and links are removed, file names become neutral and an index lists the exported and excluded documents.
Work with the AI
Give the copy to the AI of your choice (ChatGPT, Claude, Le Chat, Copilot…) so it can help you write a summary note or rework your draft reply to a tax reassessment notice. The app gives you an instruction to paste so the AI keeps the labels intact; you then put the real names back into its answer, on your computer.
Step by step: anonymizing a document before ChatGPT · ChatGPT and chartered accountants · articles of association without a home address · anonymizing a Word document · anonymizing an Excel file · Copilot and professional secrecy.
Which documents?
What you can anonymize today.
- Summary notes and reportsWord or text PDF
- Replies to a tax reassessment noticeWord or text PDF
- Articles of association, general meeting minutesWord or text PDF
- Employment contracts, engagement letters, lettersWord, text PDF or .txt
- Balance sheets and tax returnsText PDF
- Excel tables, trial balances, FEC.xlsx, .xls or .csv, one table per sheet
- Scanned receipts and invoicesPDF or image, read by local OCR
Text or scanned PDF, 50 MB maximum per file (10 MB for text and spreadsheets); a scan is read by local OCR. The copy of a Word file is a .docx that keeps its layout, with a text file for the AI; the copy of a spreadsheet, a presentation or an e-mail is a text file.
Which approach?
Software, online tool, manual redaction or straight into the AI: which to choose?
Four ways to prepare a case file before AI. Only one processes the whole file without anything leaving your computer, then puts the real names back into the answer.
| Approach | Where the document goes | Whole case file | Scans and Word | Real names put back | Time for a 30-document file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AnonymFiles | Nowhere: everything happens on your computer | Yes, same labels across every document | Yes: local OCR, Word and PDF redacted in place | Yes, as text, Word or PDF | A few minutes of processing, then your review |
| Online anonymization service | To the provider, before being anonymized | Often in batches or with quotas | Depends on the service | Depends on the service | Upload, processing, download |
| Manual redaction (Acrobat, Word) | Nowhere | No: file by file | PDF in Acrobat; in Word, text must be deleted, not highlighted | No | Slow: every name, in every document, by hand |
| Pasting the document into the AI | To the AI provider, names included | Not applicable | Yes | Not applicable | Instant, but the names are already gone |
The detail, software by software: our anonymization software comparison.
How much for a firm?
A price per seat, not per page.
For working alone or as a pair. Entire folders, batch processing, real names put back. E-mail support within 2 business days.
Get notified at launchEverything in Pro, plus priority support within 1 day. Example: an 8-person firm, €1,920 excl. VAT per year.
Get a quoteNo limit on seats: a conversation to understand your organization, a quote, then a supported roll-out and a dedicated contact.
Write to us- No online license check, ever.
- No account, no telemetry.
- Updates included for as long as your subscription runs.
A question about the plans? Write to contact@anonymfiles.com.
Frequently asked questions
Questions from chartered accountants.
What is the best document anonymization software for accountants?
AnonymFiles, document anonymization software for chartered accountants, installed on the firm's computer. It stands out on three points: it processes the whole case file with the same labels across every document, it redacts Word and PDF files inside the document itself, layout preserved, and it puts the real names back into the AI's answer. Everything happens on your computer, with no account and no network call for the license. It also reads .xlsx and .csv spreadsheets, one table per sheet, and you choose whether to mask or keep the amounts. €290 excl. VAT per seat per year, €240 excl. VAT per seat from 3 seats, no page quota. Our anonymization software comparison.
Are Excel files supported?
Yes: .xlsx and .csv files are read, one table per sheet, with cell values (without formulas). The copy is a text file, to be reviewed line by line: an IBAN or a name in a cell gets the same label as in the rest of the file.
Is it compatible with professional secrecy?
Yes, for preparing the copies: processing happens on your computer, and no third party receives your documents. What you then give to an AI, and to which one, remains your decision: only the reviewed and approved copy is meant for that.
What does the Order recommend?
Its booklet “IA et IA générative adaptées à la profession du chiffre” (August 2025) asks not to put confidential information into AI and to pseudonymize or anonymize the data given to it. The national council's leaflet “Comment utiliser ChatGPT ?” (2024) advises against uploading client e-mails, FEC files or DSN payroll returns that have not been anonymized. ChatGPT and chartered accountants: what you can share.
Can an anonymized copy still identify someone?
Yes, if an indirect detail remains visible: a SIREN number left in a header, a trade name, a registered office address, a very recognizable turnover figure. That's why each document is reviewed side by side before export, and one click masks whatever detection missed.
Can AI help prepare the reply to a tax reassessment notice?
Yes, on a pseudonymized copy. The notice must give reasons so that the taxpayer can respond (French tax procedure code, LPF, art. L. 57): the AI helps you go through it ground by ground and build the reply, due within thirty days, extendable by thirty days on request (art. R*57-1 and L. 57). The company, its managers and its address become labels, and so does the SIREN number, to be checked during review. Back taxes and penalties are masked with one click if the AI doesn't need to see them.
Can AnonymFiles produce the public version of articles of association without an address?
Not directly. Since 25 August 2025, a company director can ask for their home address to be kept confidential, by attaching a copy of the deed in which the mention of their personal address is blanked out by the applicant (Commercial Code, art. R. 123-54-1). That text only covers the address, whereas AnonymFiles' export also masks detected names and dates, which cannot yet be removed one by one. The app helps find addresses across a whole set of deeds. The step-by-step method.
Can the AI analyze a client's figures without knowing who they are?
Yes: the national council's leaflet on ChatGPT (2024) lists the analysis of anonymous data among possible uses, once precautions are taken. The company, its managers and their contact details are replaced by labels. Amounts, however, are not detected: they stay readable unless you mask them. Keep those the AI needs to comment on a result or a margin; mask with one click those that would be enough to recognize the client.
General questions (pseudonymization, which AI to use, scans, checking the network, compatible computers): the How it works FAQ.
Coming soon
The next client file you give to an AI can keep its names inside the firm.
Coming soon for Apple silicon Macs and Windows 10/11. No account, no telemetry. The button opens your e-mail app; otherwise, write to contact@anonymfiles.com.